Possible Clues:

• I'm OK with sailor performing 'The Teapot Handle' thus
• A Kipling lad, short boy having a sort of posture
• Having one's arms at the hip, but not for firing
• Way of standing a man that's extremely blotto
• Upper classes' old novel included such a display of arms
• A novel smell, thus armpits exposed?
• To arms from Kipling when there's an Aborigine around
• Elbows out a yob keeping doctor back
• Arms like this for anger
• Members' position leads to all kept in ministry backing opposition